Trent Cotchin (Merged)

[zgod]

Feel for them as a family.
Odd choice to upload it.
But, there is a touch of Yoko about Brooke.

 

[AngryAnt]

Checked the meaning of "influencer" as I had no idea what you are talking about, and is this something you know to be factual or just an assumption?

I made no claim that Brooke Cotchin was 'doing this for a small audience of family and friends' and by that I assume you mean posting an instastory which will disappear 24 hours from the time of posting. So by my understanding of the meaning of "influencer" from the definitions below I really fail to see how the instastory has anything to do with either. Rather it reminded me very much of when my daughter would post either a pic or instastory whenever she had to attend the hospital with one of my grandchildren.


noun

1. a person or thing that influences another.
   "he was a champion of the arts and a huge influencer of taste"
   • MARKETING
     a person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media.
     "influencers can add serious credibility to your brand"
     
     

Yep, she's an influencer with a personal brand to push, yada yada yada. She falls under the marketing definition you posted.

Everything she posts is for her audience - see the definition of influencer above. The insta story is part of that.

 

[amc11]

One of my very best friends has developed what I think is the strangest behaviour. His mum, who's not been well for a while, is in and out of hospital. Three times now he has posted a pic of her, prone in a hospital bed, on Facebook asking his followers to keep her in their thoughts. Vulnerable and without her usual dignity, it comes across as a public humiliation.

I'm not really bothered by the telegraphing of the captain's likely unavailability (although I reckon some people at the club would be disappointed at the cat being out of the bag), it's the devaluing of a dependant person's privacy that I find very distasteful and totally unnecessary.

Each and every one of us reacts to and sees circumstances differently as we are all looking at things from the lens of our own culture, upbringing and life experiences. While the behaviour of your friend seems strange to you, to many others it is simply a way of asking for positive thoughts/prayers to hopefully assist his mum in her recovery.

 

[King Kong]

She really can't help herself can she. It's obviously no good their little girl is unwell, but she knew the attention her post would generate. Why not just deal with the situation privately, and then if Trent needs to leave make the announcement then.

Like most wannabee social media influencers she is an attention seeker.

 

[Number8]

Each and every one of us reacts to and sees circumstances differently as we are all looking at things from the lens of our own culture, upbringing and life experiences. While the behaviour of your friend seems strange to you, to many others it is simply a way of asking for positive thoughts/prayers to hopefully assist his mum in her recovery.

He can do that without posting a picture to the world of his mum at her most helpless.

 

[artball]

people will put up whatever on instagram / social media. it's free reign. big deal.

but the weird thing is when people put up something not so happy, like Cotchs daughter being ill in hospital and people press 'like' .
what's to like about a sick kid ?

 

[Jason King]

Seriously disgusted in some of the attitudes seeping through regarding the personal choice to put a story post on Instagram. Those story posts last 24 hours. To know it is there you actually have to either follow the person posting or go looking for the post. Young parents today often post whatever is going on in their day - it does not make them attention seeking nor a bad parent. It is simply the current reality of the world.

Children can often need to be hospitalised and as most readers on PRE would have absolutely no inside knowledge of the situation the Cotchin family find themselves in, perhaps an attitude of gratitude in getting the heads up of potentially not having our captain play this weekend along with an empathy for the family would be more in keeping with being true a Richmond Man/Woman.

I get your position but think of the kids, they don't ask for this attention and once it's out there, it's out there forever. When they grow up something will invariably be there to negatively impact them.

I'm guilty of doing it, but a child psychologist pointed out just how damaging it can be. So I stopped social media altogether.

 

[UKTiger]

Social media has some good points but in the hands of the unwary it can be downright dangerous.

 

[K3]

people will put up whatever on instagram / social media. it's free reign. big deal.

but the weird thing is when people put up something not so happy, like Cotchs daughter being ill in hospital and people press 'like' .
what's to like about a sick kid ?

Whether it is a 'like', or 'star', or 'heart' it is a way to show support for the post more than 'liking it'.

 

[zippadeee]

It's about time Castagna takes over.
At least Castagna will kick with the wind

 

[artball]

Whether it is a 'like', or 'star', or 'heart' it is a way to show support for the post more than 'liking it'.

yeah i get that K3.. part of what i was getting at is the now very public nature of private moments, and how social media perverts the reality of a situation ... influencer or not ..

 

[zgod]

Odd that Brooke is still posting, especially personal things considering only last month she claimed to be suicidal due to online vitriol.
I dont know Brooke but I find it a very odd choice.
The last 12 months have certainly been a firestorm for her on instagram.
I would be urging her to step away and put the phone down.

 

[tigerlove]

He can do that without posting a picture to the world of his mum at her most helpless.

Is it to the world or just to friend’s list? The former would be very unusual and if so maybe your friend is not aware that it is going out to anyone.

 

[Jake]

She sounds like hard work.

 

[jb03]

Is it to the world or just to friend’s list? The former would be very unusual and if so maybe your friend is not aware that it is going out to anyone.

I don't have Instagram but Ms jb03 does and she follows Brook Chimpa. Open posting to anyone that wants to follow.

 

[craig]

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Influencer - Quickdraw's definition

noun

1. a person that seeks free stuff from companies in return for posting positive comments
   "he/she is a leech/fraud/fake and has multiple stupid people that hang off their every (superficial) word

Or a sociopath / narcissist.

 

[craig]

Feel for them as a family.
Odd choice to upload it.
But, there is a touch of Yoko about Brooke.

Oh No !!

 

[tigerlove]

I don't have Instagram but Ms jb03 does and she follows Brook Chimpa. Open posting to anyone that wants to follow.

Yep, sorry I was referring to a post by Number8 saying a friend posts photos of his mum in hospital on Facebook. I am also Instagram-naive.

 

[King Kong]

Odd that Brooke is still posting, especially personal things considering only last month she claimed to be suicidal due to online vitriol.
I dont know Brooke but I find it a very odd choice.
The last 12 months have certainly been a firestorm for her on instagram.
I would be urging her to step away and put the phone down.

She appears to be a Bunsen Burner. I can understand to a degree why she did it (trying to demonstrate to everyone how tough she has it) but its stuffen naïve. Of course it was going to get attention while the father is Interstate on an AFL enforced trip. It also highlights that she has no real perception of what doing it tough is really like.

Now the ensuring *smile* storm she has created is going to put more pressure on our skip to come home. If only she'd left it in house.

 

[AngryAnt]

If you're cynical and I am, you might think it is just bait for the inevitable 'trolls attacked my sick child' article down the track, whenever the profile needs a boost to flog some product.

She did claim to be suicidal after the day spa/hub debacle and all the flak she copped on social media for that. And maybe she was, for which she has my sympathy. I guess if you build your life and sense of self worth around social media than if people are critical of you on it, then it would affect your self-esteem. And we know people do say terrible things on social media like I do on PRE.

For me though that's a massive first world problem - people out there have real problems with death, illness and poverty so I can't give a wealthy social influencer too much sympathy for getting negative social media.